BPA Sets a Wind Production Record for Its Grid

ByRod Adams August 18, 2009July 16, 2020

The Clean Skies News Energy Report: Afternoon Edition of August 17, 2009 concluded with a report about a wind electricity production record set on August 6, 2009. The video from that report is posted below. It is clipped from the report, but otherwise unedited. I am sharing it with you under the site’s Creative Commons license. The numbers shared in the report are thought and comment provoking.

There is also a text version of the same story titled BPA Wind Farm Reaches New Mark

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